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boundary of Lot 12A of Section 24, Block XI, Waitoa Survey District; thence along the south-eastern, south-western, north-western, and north-eastern boundaries of that lot to the western boundary of Block XII, Waitoa Survey District, and along that boundary to a point due west of Te Aroha mountain; thence by a right line due west to the Piako River, and down that river to the point of commencement.

MATAMATA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded on the north by the Te Aroha Registration District hereinbefore described from the south-western corner of the Pakarau E Block to the Tauranga confiscation line; thence by the Tauranga confiscation line, passing through Waianuanu and Te Weraiti Trig. Stations to the easternmost corner of part Okauia No. 1B, Section 7, as shown on plan 6236A, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; thence generally south-westerly by the south-eastern boundaries generally of part Okauia No. 1B, Section 7, Whaiti-Kuranui 6A No. 1, N.R. part 59, to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by a right line to the south-western corner of Whaiti-Kuranui 6C No. 1 Block; thence along the western boundary of Whaiti-Kuranui 6C No. 2 and No. 5D to the north-eastern corner of Section 65, Block XVI, Tapapa Survey District; thence along the northern boundaries of Sections 65 and 64, Block XVI aforesaid, to the Kakahu Stream, and along that stream to its confluence with the Waiohutu Stream; thence down that stream to a point in line with the southern boundary of Section 52, Block XII, Tapapa Survey District; thence by the southern and western boundaries of Section 52 aforesaid to the northern boundary of Mangawhara No. 1A Block; thence by that boundary to the Waihou River; thence by a right line to the intersection of the Mangawhara Stream with the south-eastern boundary-line of Section 96, Block IX, Tapapa Survey District; thence by the north-western boundaries of the Mangawhara and Waipa Blocks to the Waikato River; thence down the Waikato River to the south-eastern corner of Hinuwerā No. 2 Block; thence by the eastern boundaries of Hinuwerā No. 2, Tawawhakapuori, Te Konehu, Kiwitahi, Te Waikaukau, and Matakirao Blocks and Pakarau Settlement to the south-western corner of Pakarau E Block, the place of commencement.

TIRAU DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded on the north generally by the Matamata Registration District hereinbefore described, from the Waikato River to the easternmost corner of the Okauia No. 1B, Section 7 Block; thence by a right line drawn between Te Weraiti Trig. Station and Puwhenua Trig. Station to the last-mentioned point; thence south-westerly along a right line running between Puwhenua Trig. Station and Uraura Trig. Station to the Auckland-Rotorua railway; thence generally westerly along that railway to the Oraka Stream; thence down that stream to the road forming the northern boundary of Section 1, Selwyn Settlement; thence along the northern boundaries generally of Sections 1, 3, 7, and 8, Selwyn Settlement, to the Pokaiwhenua Stream; thence by that stream to the Waikato River, and by the Waikato River to the place of commencement.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the 12th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 26th day of November, 1927.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Boundaries of Districts under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, altered.

[l.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor-General by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing registration districts known as the Opotiki, Whakatane, Kaitaia, Mangonui, Whangaroa, Te Aroha, Matamata, and Tirau Districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into eight registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Opotiki, Whakatane, Kaitaia, Mangonui, Whangaroa, Te Aroha, Matamata, and Tirau Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be conterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 26th day of November, 1927.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the Purposes of a Road in the County of Waitaki, at Richmond.

[l.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of land taken for the purposes of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway, and it is considered desirable to allocate such land to the purposes of a road:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall, upon the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become a road, and that the said road shall be under the control of the Waitaki County Council, and shall be maintained by the said Council in like manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Council.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 6 acres 3 roods 14 perches.

Portion of railway reserve, Block II, Papakaio Survey District, Waitaki County,

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 39494, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 1st day of December, 1927.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Road-lines laid out through Taumatamahoe 2b2b Block to be Public Roads.

[l.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto were, by an order of the Native Land Court made on the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, duly laid off as road-lines, in pursuance of sections forty-nine and fifty of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913:

And whereas the said Court is of the opinion that it is in the public interest that the said road-lines should be proclaimed as public roads, and a notification to that effect has been forwarded to the Minister of Lands, in terms of section fifty-one of the said Act:

And whereas one month’s notice in writing of the intention to proclaim the said road-lines as public roads has been given by the Surveyor-General to the local authority of the district concerned, in terms of section fifteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914:

And whereas it is now expedient that the said road-lines should be proclaimed as public roads:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by sections